Law School At The Top Of The Constitutional Law Game
Above The Law
APRIL 14, 2022
The constitution is kinda important for lawyers. The post Law School At The Top Of The Constitutional Law Game appeared first on Above the Law.
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“How Professors Can Teach Constitutional Law While the Supreme Court Is Wrecking It; The law school version of constitutional law taught students that lawyers and judges are at the vanguard of protecting people who lack political power; As the Court’s most recent term has demonstrated, they are not”
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AUGUST 22, 2022
“How Professors Can Teach Constitutional Law While the Supreme Court Is Wrecking It; The law school version of constitutional law taught students that lawyers and judges are at the vanguard of protecting people who lack political power; As the Court’s most recent term has demonstrated, they are not”: G.S.
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The Three Myths of the Biden Impeachment Defense
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Much of the misconduct occurred when Hunter was, by his own lawyers’ account, suddenly clear and responsible. Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. The evidence belies claims that Hunter was not responsible for these transactions or the underlying influence peddling.
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UNC Law Student Who Questioned Racial Incident Is Disqualified From Running For New Office
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MARCH 20, 2021
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USD Law Professor Under Investigation For Column Criticizing Chinese Government
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He told the law school: While the blog is not hosted by the University of San Diego, these forms of bias, wherever they occur, have an adverse impact on our community. The statement led a few faculty to write to Schapiro in protest: Dear Robert, We have read your email to the law school community as well as your email to one of us.
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Turley to Speak in Utah on the History of Impeachment
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Morrison: Time to Give DC Residents A Vote in Congress
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Minnesota Law School Drops Exclusion of Whites and Males from Diversity Scholarship
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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan
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Is the Red Scare Going Blue? Democrats Accuse Government Critics of Being “Putin Lovers” and Supporting Insurrectionists
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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption
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Shapiro Resigns From Georgetown After the Law School Reinstates Him on a “Technicality”
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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform
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Michigan Judge Declares She Will Preside Over Planned Parenthood Case Despite Her Prior Representation and Donations
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“The First Thing We Do”: Liberals Push Two Leading Lawyers Out of Major Firm After Winning Second Amendment Case
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Turley To Speak at USC Law School on the Supreme Court
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The GW Commencement Controversy: A Response To Rep. Susan Wild
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AAUP Journal Solicits Papers on Conservative Intolerance on Campuses
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Cannon Fodder: The Media Piles on Federal Judge After Lionizing Manhattan Judge
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Chief Justice John Roberts was then a Republican lawyer who helped present Bush’s case to the Florida Supreme Court and advised the Bush campaign on its U.S. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.
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However, Trump followed the advice of a second, albeit smaller, set of lawyers who told him there was a basis for challenging the election. Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.
Several Hundred Law Professors File Amicus Brief Against Trump’s Attacks On Biglaw
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How the Supreme Court Laid the Foundations for ‘Racialized Policing’
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When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. CHEMERINSKY: I think it’s a terrible change.
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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?
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FEBRUARY 8, 2021
The campaign finance charge actually was one of the more credible claims, since former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to it. Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S.
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Jack Smith’s War on Free Speech: Attorney General Garland Should Rein in His Special Counsel
JonathanTurley
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Meadows’ lawyer disputes those reports.) Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School. Smith wants to bar Trump from criticizing any witnesses as well as the prosecution and the court.
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A League of Their Own: The Rollins Decision Follows a Troubling Pattern at the DOJ
JonathanTurley
MAY 25, 2023
It also will face a reckoning over the classified documents found in President Biden’s various offices and residences ; those documents were clearly divided and moved repeatedly, and Biden’s lawyers — like Trump’s — completed searches only to have more documents discovered in these locations.
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The Guardians of Democracy: Democrats Move to Protect Democracy from Itself
JonathanTurley
DECEMBER 4, 2023
In other states, Democratic politicians and lawyers are pursuing a different strategy: “You can have any candidate, as long as it isn’t Trump.” Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. The party leadership is solving that problem by depriving Democratic voters of a choice.
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